In this old column I made extravagant fun of the notion that the Harper government was overly beholden to an assortment of picturesque Christianists. Tonight I’m not so sure I was right.

Paul Wells

He is rethinking his 2006 article on Marci McDonald’s Walrus article which is the defining piece which this site uses for definition. (See our sections: What is the Religious Right and The Religious Right in Canada.

I’m glad to see media rethinking and correcting the habit of calling Rev. Charles McVety Dr. McVety.
While the theocratic/dominionist leadership is small in Canada, it is politically influential.

Montreal Simon: The MSN discovers the Theocon Conspiracy:

Good for him. But why did it take so long? Why did the media fail to connect the dots? Probably because like so many Canadians they believe that religion and politics don’t mix. And that stuff like that only happens in Amerika.

When it should have been clear that the Canadian Christianist organizations were just branch plants of the ones in the U.S. And were moving into areas that had nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with politics.

So the media just might have wondered why influential Christianists like Paul Wilson, and Darrell Reid, the former President of Focus on the Family Canada, were being given powerful jobs in the Harper PMO.

And from xtra: An Unholy Mess